She was struck by a large falling tree on Thursday night in Barrô and died at Lamego hospital. The President and the Prime Minister paid tribute. The Odemira fire, which reached Silves overnight, is now in its resolution phase.
The Odemira fire had two fronts overnight and was still active at dawn, with RTP reporting it had reached São Marcos da Serra in Silves. A fire in Ourique shut the railway to the Algarve for more than five hours.
Coimbra is forecast to reach 37 degrees on Tuesday and Lisbon 35.4 on Monday. Three quarters of the mainland is at one of the top two fire danger levels on a Sunday in late September.
Figueira da Foz is one of only twelve councils in Portugal running two municipal forest sapper teams; fifty others run one. The state puts in about 65,000 euros per team against a real cost near 150,000, and the career parliament recommended in 2023 has not arrived.
The head of the GNR's nature protection service gave the figures in Vila Pouca de Aguiar on Friday. Burning agricultural and forest residues is still the biggest identified cause, most suspects are men in their fifties, and 19 percent of those detained are women.
The weekly outlook for 31 August to 6 September has the heat returning in two steps as an anticyclone builds over the Bay of Biscay. Maximums reach 30 to 40 degrees from midweek, with the coastal strip held to 25 to 30.
INE has laid 50,218 fires from 2020 to 2025 over the ICNF hazard chart. The high and very high classes cover 30.6 percent of the mainland and took 80.3 percent of the burnt area. Norte and Centro account for 90.7 percent of it, led by Covilha, Sabugal and Sernancelhe.
